Meredith College - Oak Leaves Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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■1 1 ENGLISH Harris, Julia H., Ph.D.. Pro- fessor; Johnson, Mary Lynch, Ph.D., Professor; Lan- ham, Louise, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Rose, Nor m a, Ph.D.. Assistant Professor; HiLDERMAN, CATHERINE, A.M., Instructor in English and speech. RELIGION McLain, Ralph E.. Ph.D.. Professor; Freeman L. E. M., Th.D., Professor; Cirrin, Billie Ruth A. M.. Instructor. SOCIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS Parker, Clyde N., Ph.D., Professor; Syron, Leslie W.. A.M., Instructor; Street, Betty E., A.B.. Instructor.

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THE MIND OF THE FACULTY Who knows the mind of the facuUy? (Nay, with all the marriages and other changes, who knows the names of the members of the faculty?) It ' s a case of many men many minds, to be sure, but also a case of many minds in one man — or woman. With income tax right around the corner, and in the offing term papers, a talk to the missionary society, a faculty meeting, basketball practice, et cetera et cetera ad infinitum, who could work with a single mind? In one way the Ph.D. ' s are like the M.D. ' s; their dicta are often inconclusive be- cause science has not yet provided material for all the answers. Should a student take, for an elective, a course in home economics or a course in philosophy? Should she drop a course she is failing or learn perserverance by continuing it? When should she be encouraged and when should she be scolded? Who knows enough to make accurate decisions on questions like these? To use an old figure, we are work- ing on the wrong side of the tapestry, with knots, broken threads, and indistinct colors trying to weave a pattern on the right side. Sometimes the threads become inextricably snarled and there is no pattern; but sometimes the pattern becomes a living, breathing reality: a busy physician working unerringly in the adjustment of her instruments; a high school instructor guiding a too active boy through irregu- lar French verbs; or a young mother illustrating for a three-year-old the intricacies of handling a fork. Then the teacher takes heart and returns with gratitude to the knots and broken threads, to the logarithms and gerunds, to the uncertainties and et ceteras, happy to be at work in the greatest of all arts, the art of living.

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CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS Yarbrough, Mary, Ph.D., Pro- jessor: Collins, Helen Jo, M.S., Instructor. Reynolds, Douglas W., B.F.A. Associate Professor; Ream, Mai A., A.M., Instructor. BUSINESS PoPHAM, Estelle, Ph.D.. Projcs- sor: Ellis, Mabel, A.M.. In- structor. BIOLOGY Yarbrough, John A.. Ph.D.. Pro- fessor: Parker, Helen, A.M., Instructor.